Gretchen Hirsch

The Benes Room at the Hamilton-Williams Campus Center was full as alumnus Jeff Long returned to his alma mater to deliver the 11th annual Heisler Business Ethics Lecture.
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Ohio Wesleyan University alumna and internationally renowned photographer JoAnn Verburg is featured in a new segment of “Minnesota Original,” in which she discusses her take on the nature of art and photography.
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Late this month, Ohio Wesleyan Associate Chaplain Lisa Ho will find herself in the company of Vice President Joe Biden, Presidential Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) as she attends a “national gathering of some of the most influential and leading clergy” for a national convening and briefing on the faith...
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It was a busy summer for Patricio Plazolles, Program Officer at Ohio Wesleyan’s Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship, as he traveled to various conferences throughout Peru speaking on Global Leadership Development and Emotional, Social, and Cultural Intelligence as a Model for Professional Success.
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Alison Drake, a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Ohio Wesleyan, is one of only 97 teachers nationwide honored this year with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.
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Tuesday evening, April 3, Professor of English and Director of OWU’s Creative Writing Program Robert Olmstead unveiled his latest book, The Coldest Night, which was released that day by Algonquin Books and already is garnering critical acclaim. A packed, friendly house at Beehive Books in downtown Delaware listened as Olmstead read a few opening...
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Three OWU students have just returned from the Ohio Regional Conference of Phi Alpha Theta, a national honorary society for history students, where each took home “Best Paper” honors in a competition that included both undergraduate and graduate students from Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
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Fight Night is Emeritus Professor of English Robert Flanagan’s newest collection of short stories, released recently by XOXOX Press. A prolific writer, Flanagan usually is working on three or four projects at a time.
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Jill Shanks Eliot ’59, director of The Imaginating Dramatics Company, has written Kids, Courage, and the Civil War.
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“I’m interested in becoming a social entrepreneur,” says Pratyush Agarwal ’11. “I want to help people in a way that makes a permanent impact on their lives.”
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Throughout the United States, former Ohio Wesleyan soccer players, and in fact, the entire OWU family, are celebrating the success of this year’s team and its coach, Dr. Jay Martin. Tomight, the team won the University’s second national championship—and Martin became the country’s all-time winningest men’s soccer coach in any NCAA division, with 608...
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More than 250 people were nominated for the 2011 Peruvian Pride Award, ultimately claimed by Ohio Wesleyan's own Patricio Plazolles, program officer at the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business and Entrepreneurship.
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WCSA issued the challenge. The President’s Circle answered it, and now nine new pieces of cardiovascular fitness equipment await the OWU community at the Edwards Gym weight room and the Belt Fitness Center.
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The atrium of the Schimmel/Conrades Science Center was packed Monday afternoon as participants in the Patricia Belt Conrades Summer Science Research Symposium presented the results of the work they did during OWU’s 10-week Summer Science Research Program.
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Patricio Plazolles, program officer of the Woltemade Center for Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship, and a native of Peru, has been nominated for the “Peruvian Pride 2011" Prize, which recognizes Peruvians who strengthen the image of Peru through their achievements in other countries.
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At 4 p.m. on August 18, a partly sunny and somewhat sultry day, the Class of 2015 entered Phillips Glen for Ohio Wesleyan’s 170th Opening Convocation—the first time the ceremony has been held where the students will gather again in four years for their Commencement exercises.
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A joint project of the Annual Giving Office and University Communications, Rock’s Amazing Race (link to the race site) lived up to the amazing part of its moniker. Eight students in four teams—Purple Team Kyle Herman ’11 and Kale Booher ’12, Green Team Pam Quigney ’11 and Stephanie Literski ’11, Orange Team Alex Bailey...
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Justin Giarrusso ’12 has won the Huntsville Youth Orchestra's First Annual Young Composers' Forum Composition Competition. His work “Gale Force” won $300 and will be rehearsed and performed at the 2011 Tennessee Valley Music Festival.
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OWU English department faculty member, Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D., has been appointed to teach this summer at the Bread Loaf School of English. Founded in 1919 by Middlebury College to provide graduate education in the fields of English and American literature, creative writing, dramatic production, and the teaching of English, the Bread Loaf School is...
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Ohio Wesleyan’s annual Celebration of Scholarship took place April 15 in the Bayley Room at Beeghly Library and included recognition of faculty publishing, unveiling of new library READ posters, and announcement of the winner of the best student research paper.
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